It is my opinion, that many bloggers, express ideas on their blogs that companies should pay close attention to, and the viewers of such articles should have a way to voice their support of such ideas to relevant companies. And the most adequate way to bridge the gap between good ideas and the companies that could/ should use such ideas, is to create a recommendation button that moves people to nudge companies into action.

I understand that Facebook has a like button, and such a button is a relevant way for internet users to support good articles, deals and so forth… and relay their satisfaction thereof to their group of friends. However, such a like button fails to measure the real demand for good ideas, therefore, some good ideas drown inside an ocean of data… a recommendation button would act as a lifeline, and give such ideas a feasible chance of being realized.

The recommendation button/ alerts would work as following:

(1) As soon as an internet user runs across a good idea within a blog article, Tweet or so forth, they would be able to click the recommendation button (heretofore referred to as the reco button.)

(2) Once the reco button is pressed, a list of options would appear on the screen, and some of such options would be as follows:

(A) Highlight/ tag the relevant portion of the text.

(B) Key word input… the user would be able to type in key words relevant to the company and/ or companies in which they think such an idea would be useful. The user would also be allowed to let the reco system search for key words within the relevant text, in which companies select before hand as indicators for appropriate alerts. (Note: users would be able to type in certain companies as key words, but would be encouraged to indicate specific industries by segments thereof.)

(C) Passion/ desire meter… such a meter would allow the user to express how strongly they feel about the idea their recommending.

Once the reco button user provides all the relevant information in relation to the options menu, a reco link would be sent to all the user’s friends.

Once the user’s friends receive such a reco link, they’d be able to click onto such a link in order to get to the options menu.

The first thing that would appear, would be all of the relevant text relating to recommended idea, followed by a showing of the friends submitted key words, with an option to add additional key words. Thereafter, they would be able to provide their own passion/ desire rating.

After completing all of the options within such a reco link, they would be able to send their own personal reco link, minus the friend’s info, to their Facebook friends.

In order to make sure only the best ideas make it to participating companies, such ideas would have to reach a certain participation level.

I could go into all of the benefits of such a reco button concerning consumers (better service, etc.) companies (their bottom line, data, etc.) and so forth. Yet, it should be obvious… for example, the passion/ desire meter would show the likeableness of such an idea within different age groups – especially once the active data (info from reco users) and the inactive data (info retaining to friends who declined the reco link) is analyzed.

In closing, I like “reco button, link, et cetera,” due to its dual meaning. In other words, it refers to two words (recognize and recommended)… meaning that the viewer must recognize the importance of the idea to such a degree, that they would initiate a recommendation movement in support thereof.